IEEE UKRI Events
All members and non-members are welcome to attend our meetings.
Safety or Reliability, is there a Choice?
Date: 30 November 2010Location: Hooke Theatre, Institute of Physics, Portland Place, London, UK
Jointly organised by IEEE, Reliability Society and Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Society, UK & Republic of Ireland.
Safety
Safety is synonymous with freedom from unacceptable levels of harm to people and is a highly desirable property of products, systems, processes or services. However, in view of ever increasing complexity, development and change, safety is often difficult if not sometimes impossible to entirely predict, manage and guarantee. At the same time, rising social awareness and the more stringent legal requirements almost globally demand higher levels of safety performance from products, processes, systems, services and the duty holders. Safety problems are characterised by unintended yet harmful incidents and accidents that apart from acts of nature, are mainly traceable to our shortcomings in concept, design, development, deployment or maintenance of products and services. Safety is heavily regulated and health, safety and welfare of people are under legal protection in most developed countries.
Reliability
Reliability is synonymous with freedom from unacceptable levels of functional failure that lead to unavailability of products, systems or services. Unlike safety, reliability problems may be characterised by poor design, technology choices inadequate for the intended application or environment, manufacturing errors, faults and poor maintenance. The focal point in reliability is continued functionality of the product or system and the consequences of such failures. Reliability, as yet, is not generally regulated and may be regarded as mainly a commercial decision by duty holders. Nevertheless unacceptable level of failures can affect human health, safety or welfare because of the hazards that can arise, for example by failures of transport - (such as electronics in aircraft, cars and or trains). There have been a number of recalls in recent times and the “Time-bomb” presentation at the recent Reliability OutReach event highlight such hazards
Aims of the Workshop
Safety and reliability are essentially emergent properties of a product, process, system or undertaking. Safety as a duty of care placed on all purveyors of products and services is regulated by law, whereas reliability has been regulated by the market it is no longer solely a commercial choice. Consequently, there are many synergies between the two domains that had been viewed as separate disciplines.
This joint workshop will explore the common grounds between these two essential properties with the help of industrial and academic experts and aim to provide systemic insights into an integrated approach.
Co-Chairs: A G Hessami and Nihal Sinnadurai
Reliability Society UK&RI Chapter Chair: Nihal Sinnadurai (conference@ukri.org)
5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications (ECCSC'10)
Date: 23-25 November 2010Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Website: eccsc10.etf.rs
The first UK Symposium on Cognitive Robotics and Learning
Date: 20 October 2010Location: University of Manchester
IEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter UKRI
Organisers: Prof J. Gray (University of Manchester)
Dr S. Nefti (University of Salford)
Dr M. Brown (University of Manchester)
Robotic cognition embodies the behaviour of intelligent agents in the physical world (or virtual world). However, before such agents can become truly cognitive it is necessary that they utilize some form of autonomous analysis and develop an understanding of their world by virtue of their experience in that world. They must be able of natural interaction with humans and understand the manner in which they communicate by word and gesture. They must be aware of their environment how it behaves, knowing when interaction is required, and understanding the intention of the communication, even if the information communication is insufficient. They must also be able to learn and reason about how to behave in response to complex goals in a complex world and about other agents and perhaps even about their own mental states. That is, it requires "the cognitive capability" inspired by results e.g. in developmental psychology, neurophysiology and social sciences and by embracing biological and engineering approaches to cognitive science.
This symposium will present recent research and developments in the growing field of cognitive and learning robotics by bringing together leading researchers (UK & international) in the fields of cognitive robotics, intelligence learning and control. Also of interest would be questions of how the robotics community could contribute to these fields. Topics of interest include neuroscience, cognition and sensorimotor control with the ultimate goal of developing intelligent robust machines based on these principles. Specific topics of interest are:
- Cognitive robotics
- Computational models of human cognition
- Software and hardware architectures for cognitive systems
- Cognitive processes in vision
- Biologically inspired cognitive systems
- Role of humanoid robots in realising human-like cognition
- Language and communication
- Human-like learning systems
- Cognitive control
- Perceptual and motor learning
Location
The Symposium will be held in the Frank Adams rooms, Alan Turning Building (School of Mathematics) at the University of Manchester. Travel details can be found at:
www.mims.manchester.ac.uk/info/directions.html
Registration/Contact
Registration details will be confirmed shortly. To express an interest or to find out more details, please contact Samia Nefti (s.nefti-meziani@salford.ac.uk, +44 (0) 161 2954010) or Martin Brown (martin.brown@manchester.ac.uk, +44 (0)161 306 4672).
5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010)
Date: 8-10 September 2010Location: Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Website: www.hope.ac.uk/bicta2010
Cognitive Dynamic Systems Course
Date: 7 September 2010Location: Queen's University of Belfast, BT3 9DT, Belfast, UK
A one day course is organized on Cognitive Dynamic Systems by Prof. Simon Haykin. For registration details email Dr. Mathini Sellathurai at mathini@ieee.org by August 20 2010.
Coherent Manipulation of Donor States in Silicon Using THz Laser Pulses
Date: 22 July 2010Location: City University London, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB
Website: www.city.ac.uk/
Speaker: Dr Stephen A Lynch, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London
Stephen Lynch graduated with 1st class honours in experimental physics from University College Dublin in 1995, followed by a PhD in optoelectronics from Trinity College Dublin in 1999. In 2000 he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where he spent 7 successful years as a Research Fellow. In 2007, he moved to UCL, where he is currently a member of the academic staff and holds an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship. Over the past 3 years at UCL he has built up a state-of-the-art infrared laser and spectroscopic facility.
Abstract: Since the early 1960s it has been known that a small concentration of group-V donors in silicon produces a series of extraordinarily sharp absorption lines in the THz part of the electromagnetic spectrum. In the last decade, there has been resurging interest in this extraordinary material system and this has lead to a dramatic increase in activity in the research field. Much of this renewed interest stemmed from a proposal by Kane that silicon doped with group-V donors might be exploited to realise a quantum computer. Many experiments have been recently performed to investigate the feasibility of this scheme. These include measurements of both the spin lifetimes and lifetimes of the donor Rydberg states. The second important development that rekindled interest in this research field was the invention of the optically pumped silicon laser. This breakthrough was the first demonstration of lasing in a silicon-based material, and to-date lasing at THz frequencies has now been demonstrated for all four Group-V donors.
In this talk I will explore the physics of Group-V donors in silicon, and in particular the ubiquitous n-type donor phosphorus. I will first discuss experiments performed to investigate lifetimes of the excited phosphorus donor states. From this point I will move on to speak about coherent quantum phenomena. I will present convincing evidence for the first observation of a THz photon echo. I will then demonstrate using the photon echo how it is possible to coherently manipulate the quantum state of the silicon donors. This represents the first step towards realising a qubit in silicon. The experiments described in this talk were performed at the UK station of the Dutch free electron facility, FELIX, in the Netherlands. The main body of this work is described in a June 2010 Nature paper.
The event is organized by:
IEEE UKRI (AP/ED/MTT/Photonics) Societies Joint Chapter and City University London
Contact: Prof. B M A Rahman at b.m.a.rahman@city.ac.uk
Photonics Workshop in London
Date: 13-14 July 2010 Location: City University London, Northampton Square EC1V 0HBProf Aziz Raman is organising two-day event "Photonics Workshop" at City University, London on behalf of the UKRI(AP/ED/MTT/Photonics) Chapter.
Introduction to City and Welcome: Prof. Julius Weinberg, Acting VC City Research: Prof. Dinos Arcoumanis, DVC (Research & International)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Session A:
- 10.00 Prof. David Payne, FRS, Southampton – High power fibre lasers
- 10.30 Dr A White, Senior Technologist , Sterlite – The Fiber Optics Industry in India
Session B:
- 11.30 Dr William Wadsworth, U Bath, Nonlinear wavelength conversion in microstructured fibres
- 12.00 Prof. KTV Grattan: Structural integrity monitoring using optical fibre sensors
- 12.30 Dr Bernard Doussaier: University of Nice, France: Speciality optical fibres at the University of Nice
Session C:
- 2.00 Prof. Nabeel Riza, IEEE Distinguished lecturer: CREOL, University of Central Florida, Hybrid Optical Sensors for extreme temperature measurement in next generation higher efficiency greener power plants
- 2.40 Prof. Richard de la Rue, FREng, Glasgow University: Micro-/Nano-Photonic Device Structures Applied to Communications and Sensing
- 3.10 Prof. Brian Culshaw, FREng: Strathclyde, Photonic Crystal Fibres – In sensors?
Session D: Numerical methods for Photonics
- 4.00 Prof. A Sharma, IIT Delhi – Approximate and numerical methods for optical waveguiding structures.
- 4.30 Prof. T Benson, FREng, Nottingham – The Optical Properties of Chalcogenide Glasses: From Measurements to Electromagnetic Tools.
- 5.00 Prof. B M A Rahman, City – Characterization of photonic devices by using the finite element method
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Session E
- 9.30 Prof. David Richardson, Southampton University, Optical signal processing using HNLFs
- 10.00 Prof. Roy Taylor, Imperial College London, High Average Power Supercontinuum Sources
- 10.30 Prof. Ajoy Kar/Dr Robert, Heriot Watt, Nonlinear photonics?
Session F
- 11.30 Prof. Angela Sneddon: University of Nottingham, Tg – glass door to photonic devices
- 12.00 Prof. Harith Ahmad: Malaysia: Selective area solution doping in silica glass film.
- 12.30 Dr Shum Ping, Nanyang Tech U, Singapore: Fiber-Based Technologies for Sensing Applications
Session G
- 2.00 Dr M A Alsunaidi, KFUPM, Saudi Arab, Numerical modelling of plasmonic structures
- 2.30 Dr Vipul Rastogi, IIT Roorkee, India: large mode area fibres?
- 3.00 Dr Vijay Janyani, MNIT, Jaipur, India: Photonic crystal fibres?
- 3.30 to 4.30 Management Committee Meeting
Contact: Prof. B M A Rahman at b.m.a.rahman@city.ac.uk
5th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)
Date: 22-24 June 2010Location: Loughborough University, UK
Website: http://ieeesose2010.org/
IEEE SMC Society announces the 5th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) with its vast ramifications in numerous engineering fields such as control, computing, communication, information technology and the applications to manufacturing, defense, national and homeland security, aerospace, aeronautics, energy, environment, transport.
Commercial Applications for RF MEMS
Date: 17 May 2010Time: 2:00pm
Location: University of Leeds, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Stepan Lucyszyn
IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Professor in Millimetre-Wave Electronics, Imperial College London
Radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF MEMS) have been heralded as a technology fit for the 21st century, offering unsurpassed RF performance over more conventional solid-state electronic devices. In recent years, this technology has seen a rapid rate of expansion because of its potential for advancing new products within a broad range of applications; from ubiquitous smart sensor networks to mobile handsets. Indeed, within the US, Asia and Europe, R&D is almost at fever pitch. The high levels of investment come second only to the expectations for commercial exploitation. The first RF MEMS device was reported 30 years ago by IBM. After experiencing the peak of inflated expectation in 2003 and subsequent trough of disillusionment in 2005, RF MEMS switches have emerged into the slope of enlightenment. They are now commercially available on the open market, offering new solutions for realizing high performance reconfigurable microwave circuits and systems. A major new book, entitled Advanced RF MEMS (edited by the speaker), is scheduled for publication at the beginning of 2010. This lecture will explain the many facets of this technology and demonstrate how RF MEMS can move itself out of the laboratory and into real commercial applications.
Stepan Lucyszyn FIEE, FInstP, FEMA, SMIEEE is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) in Millimetre-wave Electronics at Imperial College London. For the first 12 years of his research career he worked on microwave and millimetre-wave RFIC/MMICs. During the following 9 years, Dr Lucyszyn worked on RF MEMS. Dr Lucyszyn has (co-)authored well over 100 technical papers in applied physics and engineering, and presented many invited lectures at international conferences and workshops. In 2009 he was appointed an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for 2010-2012.
The event is organized by
IEEE UKRI: (AP.ED.MTT.Photonic) Societies Joint Chapter and Institute of Microwaves & Photonics, University of Leeds
Local contact: Prof Ian Hunter
University of Leeds
i.c.hunter@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: 0113 343 2055
Nuclear fusion - the energy for the future?
Jim Swift CEng MIET
Date: 30 April 2010
Time: 14:00 (Optional Lunch at 12:30)
Venue: The IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
The forecasts for future worldwide demands for electrical energy are daunting. The need to generate clean energy, minimising the discharge of more CO2 into atmosphere, presents a further challenge. Wind, Solar, Wave and conventional Nuclear power generation all have a part to play but can these alone solve the problem in an environmentally acceptable way? Our Sun, as for all stars, generates its output by fusing hydrogen and helium nucleii and in the process emits enormous energy as heat and light. Since the 1950s scientists have been exploring the possibility of replicating a similar process on earth in a controlled manner for electrical power generation. This lecture will discuss the nuclear fusion process, its potential for meeting the world’s demand in a clean manner and the challenges and timescales that have still to be faced before this can become a reality.
The Friday Lunch Club meet at 12.30 for lunch prior to the lecture. If you would like to join them please contact Mike Ward to reserve a place.
Cost: Lunch (optional) - £13.50, Lecture only - Free of charge
Amazing Breakthroughs in Radar / Phased Arrays
Date: 21 April 2010
Time: 18:00
Venue: Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, Torrington Place
University College London
A lecture by Dr. Eli Brookner (Raytheon, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA). Organised by the IEEE UKRI Section - Aerospace and Electronic Systems Chapter.
Dr. Brookner is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, and has been involved in many aspects of radar technology for many years. He was awarded the IEEE Dennis J. Picard medal in 2006 for “outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar technologies” and has received many other awards.
CAVMAG 2010
Date: 19-20 April 2010Location: Bournemouth University, England
2010 marks the 70th anniversary of development of the high-power cavity magnetron by Randall and Boot at Birmingham University. This crucial invention was made into a practical device by the GEC Company in England and put into large-scale production in the USA following the Tizard Mission of 1940. Its origins, however, go back to the mid-1930s with key work being done in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Japan and the USA.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together knowledge of all this early work and to learn how the magnetron was improved and put into service since then. Several eminent engineers have already agreed to give talks. We now enthusiastically invite contributors to submit papers on the following aspects:
- Origins of the magnetron in the various countries involved
- Its subsequent development, both in early and later days
- The latest trends
- Applications to civil and military radar systems
- Other uses, such as microwave ovens
Speakers should submit a 200 word abstract as soon as possible but not later than 31 August 2009, to: Keith Thrower (Conference Chairman) Email:
The conference language is English and all submitted papers must be in the English Language.
See: http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=231&Itemid=76
The conference is sponsored by:
IET (History of Technology TPN)
IEEE (UKRI Section) and IEEE History Center
IEEE Region 8 History Council
The Defence Electronics History Society (DEHS)
and is supported by a grant from the IEEE Life Members Committee
Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments
Date: 6-9 April 2010
Location: Dublin, Ireland
http://www.ieee.org/web/education/transforming_engineering_education_conference/Index.html
UKRI Section AGM & Lecture
Date: 10 March 2010
Location: Room 611 (6th Floor, Dennis Gabor Room), Imperial College London
Chapter Chairs meeting from 1000 to 1300, and its EXCOM meeting from 1400 to 1730, followed by the AGM at 1745.
A lecture will be given at 1815 by Professor Erol Gelenbe of Imperial College on Networked Auctions.
Agenda:
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Report of Activities and Officers:
- Chair's Report
- Treasurer's Report
- Any other business
UKRI Section Lecture: Internet Auctions
by Prof Erol Gelenbe (Electrical Engineering Dept., Imperial College)Abstract: Web based computerised auctions are increasingly present in the Internet. We can imagine that in the future this trend will actually be extended to situations where virtual buyer and seller agents will conduct automated transactions across the network, and that large sectors of the economy may be structured in this manner. The purpose of this paper is to model automated bidders and sellers which interact through a network. We model the bidding process as a random arrival process while the price attained by a good is modelled as a discrete random variable. We obtain analytical solutions allowing us to compute the income from a single auction, or the income per unit time from a repeated sequence of auctions. A variety of single auction models are studied, including English and Vickrey auctions, and the income per unit time is derived as a function of other parameters including the rate of arrival of bids, the seller's decision time, the value of the good, and the "rest time" of the seller between successive auctions. We illustrate the results via numerical examples. We also introduce a model for networked auctions where bidders can circulate among a set of interconnected auctions which we call the "mobile bidder model (MBM)". We obtain an analytical solution for the MBM under the assumption, which we call the "active bidders assumption", that activities that are internal to an auction (bids and sales) are much more frequent than changes that occur in the number of bidders at each auction.
Bio: Erol Gelenbe holds the Dennis Gabor Chair at Imperial College and is a Fellow of IEEE (1986), a Fellow of ACM (2001) and a Fellow of IET (2003). He is the first non-American to win the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award (2008) for contributions to computer and network performance evaluation. He has graduated over 50 PhD students, and in 1996 he was the first Computer Scientist to win the Grand Prix France-Telecom of the French Academy of Sciences. He is a Commander of Merit of Italy, an Officer of Merit of France and has been awarded several other decorations. He has been awarded Honoris Causa Doctorates from the University of Rome II (Italy, 1996), Bogazici University (Istanbul, 2004) and the University of Liege (Belgium, 2006). He is a member of the French National Academy of Engineering, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and of Academia Europaea.
Life Members Affinity Group Meeting
Date: Wednesday 3 March 2010Time: 1:30pm
Location: Mahanakorn Room 908, 9th floor, Electrical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.
IEEE Life Members are invited to the annual meeting of the UK&RI Chapter of the Life Members Affinity Group. The meeting will end by 16:30 to allow time to walk over to the Sir Alexander Fleming Building for the Peter Lindsay Memorial Lecture at 17:00.
(Note: there is a cafe in the ground floor lobby where light refreshments can be purchased for a pre-meeting lunch)
Agenda items include:
- Reports on collaboration with IET, DEHS, Sense about Science, others. regarding History of ElectroTechnology; Etc
- Initiatives: archives of IEEE Activities; Industrial Archives of Electrotechnology developed in UK&RI; List of Museums of Historical Interest Electrotechnology
- Initiatives: Oral History project; IEEE Milestones in UK&RI
- Support for Conferences: Magnetron Conference 19-21 April 2010; HILSTELCON 2010 Madrid 3-5 November 2010
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Challenges in Silicon Nanowire Technology
Date: Friday 29 January 2010Time: 6:00pm (5:30pm refreshment)
Location: University of Westminster, Department of Electronic Systems, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW
Juin J. Liou
Pegasus Distinguished Professor, IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
Abstract
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a process in which a finite amount of charge is transferred from one object (i.e., human body) to the other (i.e., microchip). This process can result in a very high current passing through the microchip within a very short period of time, and more than 35% of chip damages can be attributed to such an event. As such, designing robust on-chip ESD structures to protect microchips against the ESD stress is a high priority in the semiconductor industry. The continuing scaling of CMOS technology makes the ESD-induced failures even more prominent, and one can predict with certainty that the availability of effective and robust ESD protection solutions will be a critical component to the success of the deep sub-micron technology advancement.
An overview on the ESD sources, models, protection schemes, and testing will first be given in this talk. This is followed by the investigation of ESD robustness of the advanced Si nanowire devices. Finally, the ESD challenges in Si nanowire technology will be addressed and discussed.
Biography
Prof Liou is at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida where he is now the Pegasus Distinguished Professor and UCF-Analog Devices Fellow.
Prof Liou served as the IEEE EDS Vice-President for Regions/Chapters, IEEE EDS Treasurer, IEEE EDS Finance Committee Chair, IEEE EDS Administrative Committee Elected Member, and IEEE EDS Educational Activities Committee Member.
The event is organized by:
IEEE UKRI: (AP.ED.MTT.Photonics) Societies Joint Chapter
Circuit & System Chapter, and
Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter
Contact: Prof Izzet Kale, University of Westminster
Email: kalei@westminster.ac.uk
Tel: 020-7911-5157
Mobile Web: Convergence or Collision?
Date: 17 December 2009Time: 17:00
Location: De Montfort University, Gateway House, GH 3.54
Tim Raby (OMTP Managing Director)
The Internet web world and the traditional cellular voice business are very different but many believe that the convergence of the two is an inevitable good thing. Cellular networks are going all-IP, full AJAX Browsers are already a feature of high end phones, PCs have SIMs. But is just adopting the technology of existing worlds the right solution? The Internet business model is very different and significantly less valuable than mobile voice and text. The Internet world wants a piece of the money but will not compromise openness. The mobile world wants to attract the innovative developer community to create the “killer application”. How does it open-up without damaging core mobile values e.g. users trust, quality and profit? The talk will address these questions, showing in particular how OMTP BONDI, a mobile industry driven initiative, sits squarely in the middle of this evolution.
Third International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-09)
Date: 3 December 2009Organiser: IET Vision and Imaging Network, Kingston University, Technical Co-sponsorship by IEEE UKRI Communications Chapter
Deadline for papers: 17 August 2009
Fees: IEEE members registration fees are at the IET member-rates
Website: www.icdp-conf.org
7th IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics
Date: 26-29 November 2009Location: Hotel Tryp Bellver, Palma de Mallorca Website: www.bmf.hu/conferences/iccc2009
Electronics and its Impact on Energy and the Environment
Date: 12 November 2009 Time: 16:00 Location: BT Laboratories, Adastral ParkSpeaker: Nihal Sinnadurai, Fellow IEEE, Fellow Institute of Physics, PhD, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Electronics technologies and devices are on track to be the solution to many of our current and future environmental and energy related needs. Getting the balance right between energy sourcing and consumption, and doing it now, will enable mankind to continue to be the adventurous spirit that has made us explorers and innovators without boundaries.
The History of Transporter Bridges [IET Event]
Date: 30 October 2009 Time: Optional Lunch at 12:00 and Lecture at 14:00 Location: The IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 2BLThe Newport Transporter Bridge is a crossing of the River Usk in Newport, Wales. It is a Grade I listed structure. Designed by French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin, it was built in 1906 and opened by Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar on 12 September 1906. The span is an example of the very rare transporter bridge concept, of which only eight exist worldwide.
As a form of 'aerial ferry' these bridges fulfilled a particular transport need at the turn of the last Century from about 1890 to 1920 and were almost exclusively powered by electricity. Our speaker was personally responsible for the £3.5m restoration of the Newport Bridge and has visited several of the others around the world.
Speaker: Barry Mawson is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Most of his career has been on the design, construction and management of bridges. Although retired, he still acts as a consultant and is attached to Cardiff University, where he is involved in the teaching of design and undertaking research. He currently edits the Bridge Engineering part of the ICE proceedings.
Registration: Registration is essential as places are limited. Please register with Mike Ward indicating your wish to attend the lunch and / or the lecture and quoting reference code UKRI.
Tel: +44 (0) 208 508 7116
Email: m.r.ward@btinternet.com
Cost: The lecture is free, and there is a charge of £13.50 for the optional lunch beforehand.
IEEE 125 Anniversary London Event
Date: 6th October 2009Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain, London W1S 4BS
IEEE is 125 years old this year (2009) and will be holding celebration events in several locations around the world. Munich and London have been chosen for IEEE Region 8. The London event will be held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain where Faraday did his famous experiments.
See http://www.ieee.org.uk/ieee125.html
W-Tech 2009
Date: Wednesday 24th June 2009Location: IET, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL
BCS and WomenInTechnology are bringing women, whatever stage of their career, those looking to get their career back on track, and employers together for the premier networking event of 2009.
Meet with some of the smartest IT professionals, the biggest recruiters in IT, attend career development workshops, revamp and submit your cv, prepare yourself for that next interview or promotion.
The event is a rare recruitment and networking event that will attract many top companies, and give the opportunity to hear from high profile women in the industry already succeeding and achieving.
Full details are on the W-Tech website.
Location Privacy: Where You Are is Who You Are
Date: Thursday 18th June 2009Location: University of Westmisnter, 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW
Time and Place: 13:00-14:00; Small Lecture Theater
Speaker: A/Prof Andrew Dempster from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Technology that reports a person's position is becoming ubiquitous. As is often the case, ethical concerns about impacts and legal remedies to those problems lag significantly behind the introduction of technology. What is location privacy and what are the threats to it? What does the company that automatically collects your road toll do with that information, which identifies where you were and when? Is that information used for secondary purposes? Does Google have the worst privacy-invading reputation of any company? These and other location privacy issues will be discussed in this lecture by A/Prof Andrew Dempster from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
This lecture is organised by the IEEE UKRI CAS and I&M Chapters.
About the speaker:
Andrew Dempster is Director of Research in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales. He has a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was system engineer and project manager for the first GPS receiver developed in Australia in the late 80s and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since. His current research interests are in satellite navigation receiver design and signal processing, and new location technologies.
2009 GNSS Receiver Design and Signal Processing Workshop
Date: Tuesday 16th June 2009Location: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW
Time and Place: Starting at 9:00am; Room: C2.15
This event is organised by the IEEE UKRI CAS and I&M Chapters, and hosted by the Applied DSP and VLSI Research Group (ADVRG).
This all day FREE workshop is open to all IEEE members and non-members that want to particiopate.
It should be noted that attendance at this event is strictly by registration, and places to attend the event are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
To secure a place on this workshop please email: ademcoskun@engineer.com by 14:00hrs Monday 15th June 2009, providing the following information:
Name, Affiliation, Email and IEEE/RIN Membership.
Upon which we shall email you to confirm your place.
In this one-day workshop, A/Prof Andrew Dempster from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Visiting Research Fellow at the ADVRG, will present his group's recent research progress in satellite navigation receiver design.
Topics include:
1. Architectures (software radio: quadrature bandpass, sampling, sampling jitter, Comb filters, System of Systems)
2. Receiver design (search engines, acquisition and tracking of L2C/ E1/ E5, L5)
3. Signal Processing (interference: GPS effects, geolocation, beamforming, cellular network effects, multipath, cross-correlation: L1, L2C)
4. Positioning with fewer than 4 satellites
The workshop will start at 9:00am continuing through to 12:30, with a simple sandwich lunch provided from 12:30 - 13:30, and the workshop continuing from 13:30 - 17:00
About the speaker:
Andrew Dempster is Director of Research in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales. He has a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was system engineer and project manager for the first GPS receiver developed in Australia in the late 80s and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since. His current research interests are in satellite navigation receiver design and signal processing, and new location technologies.
British Army Battlefield Radios of the 1940s
Date: Friday 29th May 2009Location: IET, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL
Illustrated talk by Prof. Anthony Davies, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London and Visiting Professor, Kingston University.
The needs of World War Two provided an exceptional stimulus for major and rapid innovations in electronics and radio technology and this was reflected in the designs of battlefield radios for the British Army. The talk will be a mainly-non-technical description of the wireless communications facilities provided for the battlefield environment, primarily by showing extensive photographs of actual equipment.
See http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/london/armyradio.cfm
AGM & Lecture: Why Renewables?
Date: Wednesday 11th March 2009AGM: 5:45pm
Lecture: 6:30pm
Location: University of Westminster
Address: Cavendish Building, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW
Room: Large Lecture Theatre, second floor
Lecturer: Dr Donald Swift-Hook, Secretary of the World Renewable Energy Network
Broadcast: live webcast.
The AGM is open to all IEE members.
This will be followed by the lecture at 6:30pm which is open to both members and non-members.
Abstract
In spite of the fact that there is no overall shortage of energy resources globally, almost all countries are currently pursuing renewable energy technologies. Their rate of growth is escalating rapidly, doubling every 2 or 3 years. This is because they offer security of supply with price stability to countries traditionally reliant on external sources of oil and coal, as well as being low carbon emission technologies that can grow virtually without limit. They can also have low transmission and generation costs.
Today’s dramatic progress will be reviewed, especially in wind power, solar power, marine, and biomass technologies.
Lecturer
DONALD SWIFT-HOOK spent the first part of his career in industrial research, first with GEC, and then with the Electricity Supply Industry before it was privatised, when he became a private consultant. He started research in renewables 35 years ago. He was a Visiting Professor at King’s College London for 20 years, and has held many positions on the Councils and Committees of the IEE (now IET), the Energy Institute and the Institute of Physics. He is a Chartered Engineer, EurIng, Chartered Scientist, Physicist and Mathematician, and a Member of the Institute of Directors.
While he was Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association he started the European Wind Energy Association, and currently helps to organise the World Energy Congress.
The lecture will be available to view as a live webcast.
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